Foto Vincent Mentzel

Let us share with you our fetish for book spines. Spines are the core of the book. Not only literally. They also tell you something about the book. Foto Vincent Mentzel has a brutal book spine, designed by Irma Boom. It’s black and white, it’s timeless, it’s massive. Vincent Mentzel is a Dutch photographer slash photojournalist. Anyone who has been of any importance in the last four decades is portrayed by Vincent Mentzel in the typical style. Basically it is like the spine of the book: it’s black and white, it’s timeless, it’s massive. Altogether, a gorgeous book.

One of the covers (there are four options) features our reining queen, Beatrix. At the moment it was shot she was still crown princess of The Netherlands. Purpose for the shoot was to get a basis for the coin that was made with her portrait the moment she turned Queen.